Perucac exhumations 10.09.2010

On 10.09.2010, the second day of Eid,more than a hundred volunteers from Sarajevo made their way to Perucac lake where hundreds of remains of Bosniak victims from Visegrad lay. They were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in 1992 and their bodies dumped into the River Drina. The following pictures were taken by Velija Hasanbegovic, a Visegrad genocide survivor and one of the organizers of the exhumations.

Image: Volunteers make their way towards a exhumation site.

Image:Volunteers make their way towards a exhumation site.

Image: A volunteer digging the soil in search of bones.

Image: Volunteers digging the soil in search of bones.

Image: Volunteers digging the soil in search of bones.

Image: Velija Hasanbegovic (first from left) with a group of volunteers helping with the exhumations.